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These numbers, by reference to my last year's Report,
will be found to vary very little indeed from the statement
then made, the slight variation being in the favor of the
past year.
The localization of disease in the Hamlet is most important.
In many instances the reduction of mortality has
followed so closely on street or house improvement, that it
can only be looked upon as a direct consequence. But
it must be admitted that there is a decided diminution
observable also in some places where no material change has
been made.
That part of the East Ward where, in my last Report, I
stated that further reduction in mortality was to be looked
for, has realized the expectations then expressed. In three
streets (called roads) where the mortality was greatest,* the
deaths in 1857 were 49, including 20 of the kind most
obedient to sanitary regulation; in 1858, in the same
streets or roads, there were 30, including seven deaths only
from zymotic causes. One case of Diphtheria occurred, and
that in the most unexceptionable part of the Mile End Road.
In the North Ward there was a diminution of disease in
some of the streets which have been noticed for their high
mortality. West Street, for instance, is long and populous,
and attracts the eye in a list more than any other, on
account of its extent and the greater value of figures
attached to it in the tables prepared for statistical purposes.
The deaths in that street were reduced from 38 to 19,
inclusive of zymotic cases, which also fell from 13 to five.
Six deaths from Diphtheria occurred in this Ward, and one
from Small Pox.
The West Ward also shows improvement in some places
* Regent's Road, Ann's Road, and Thomas's Road.